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Alibaba Supply Chain Exec Recommends Futureproofing with AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing

Retail TouchPoints

But the supply chain disruptions that it exacerbated have not fallen by the wayside as easily as disposable masks did, with the global movement of goods continuing to be impacted by one challenge after another — from war and terrorist attacks to drought. The COVID-19 pandemic has, for all intents and purposes, ended.

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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

In 2024, it won’t be your dad’s supply chain. These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: Retailers need additional tools to fully integrate these stores’ back-of-house (BOH) operations into the rest of their supply chain.

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Breakthrough Helps Retailers Optimize Their Shipping Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

Breakthrough provides an overall suite of solutions designed to allow retail shippers to direct their focus on achieving multiple supply chain goals rather than just one. CleanMile: Actively turns transportation data and insights into effective sustainability initiatives to help make real progress toward scope 3 emissions reduction.

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Shipping Dangerous Goods 101: A Guide for Brands

ESW

With this expansion comes challenges, such as the shipping and handling of products classified as dangerous goods. We’ll look at their classifications, how to identify them and considerations when shipping and handling them abroad. As a result, they are subject to handling, shipping, packaging and transportation regulations.

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Mitigate Supply Chain Challenges with Data and Proactive Customer Communication

Retail TouchPoints

So what does a retailer do when supply chains are stopped up, slow or just plain broken — and they don’t even have reliable information on exactly when items will arrive? Address Supply Chain Challenges with Better Demand Data. Supply chain problems are inextricably linked with demand changes, which themselves have been dramatic.

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Why Companies Should Consider Outsourcing Some or All of Their Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

As supply chains become increasingly complex due to the proliferation of commerce channels and higher consumer expectations, businesses are turning to outsourced functions that can deliver on speed, quality and cost. Many traditional retailers have relied on the belief that controlling more parts of their supply chain will bring costs down.

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Ecommerce Shipping: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Shipping Profitability

BigCommerce

Putting an effective ecommerce shipping strategy in place is one of the most impactful steps you can take to grow your business online. Of course, while shipping can be a powerful point of differentiation for your brand, it’s important to make sure that your company can actually act on the strategy. Ecommerce Shipping Best Practices.